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    Identity Unknown

    The gripping new Kay Scarpetta thriller for 2024

    by Patricia Cornwell ...
    Narrated by January LaVoy ...
    Series Audiobook 30 - Kay Scarpetta

    Unabridged

    10 hours 12 min

    THE THRILLING NEW KAY SCARPETTA MYSTERY FROM THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER'Iconic. Bold. Brilliant. Identity Unknown is hauntingly original, impossibly clever and devilishly daring. Scalpel-sharp storytelling, trademark twists and characters that feel like family, this series is one of the all-time greats' CHRIS WHITAKER, author of Sunday Times bestseller All the Colours of the DarkSummoned to an ... Read more

    $53.99 AUD

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    The Anxious Generation

    How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

    by Jonathan Haidt ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 32 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.An urgent and insightful investigation into the collapse in youth mental health, from the influential social psychologist and international bestselling author**After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents in many countries around the world deteriorated suddenly in the early 2010s. Why have rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

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    Butler to the World

    How Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals

    by Oliver Bullough ...
    Narrated by Oliver Bullough ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 6 min

    The Suez Crisis of 1956 was Britain's twentieth-century nadir, the moment when the once superpower was bullied into retreat. In the immortal words of former US Secretary of State Dean Acheson, 'Britain has lost an empire and not yet found a role.' But the funny thing was, Britain had already found a role. It even had the costume. The leaders of the world just hadn't noticed it yet.Butler to the ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD

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    Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide's Family Murders

    by Debi Marshall ...
    Narrated by Debi Marshall ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 32 min

    In this definitive expose, Walkley-award winning journalist Debi Marshall turns her investigative blowtorch to the shocking Adelaide Family murders and to secrets long hidden in the City of Corpses.This chilling account begins with the liberalisation of South Australia under the premiership of Don Dunstan and demands answers to decades-old questions. Who were the Family killers? Why are ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD

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    Faux Feminism

    Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop

    by Serene Khader ...
    Narrated by Sharmila Devar ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 47 min

    **For readers of Hood Feminism and Against White FeminismAn incisive examination of why the pillars of feminism have eroded—and how all women, not just the #girlbosses, can rebuild them**After over 175 years, the feminist movement, now in its fourth wave, is at risk of collapsing on its eroding foundation. In Faux Feminism, political philosopher Serene Khader advocates for another feminism—one ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD

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    The Black Swan: Second Edition

    The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility"

    by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ...
    Narrated by Joe Ochman ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Incerto

    Unabridged

    15 hours 48 min

    The Black Swan is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes.A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal ... Read more

    $41.99 AUD

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    The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World

    by David Graeber ...
    Narrated by Savitri D, Jacques Servin ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 54 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews.**‘The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently,’ wrote David Graeber. This new collection brings together the renowned anthropologist, author and activist’s ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

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    The Highly Sensitive Parent: How to care for your kids when you care too much

    by Elaine N. Aron ...
    Narrated by Helen Lloyd ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 56 min

    From the world-renowned authority and internationally bestselling author of The Highly Sensitive Person, comes an indispensable guide for the significant number of parents who are unusually attuned to their children.The Highly Sensitive Parent is the only book of its kind, written specifically for parents who think deeply about every issue affecting their kids, experiencing strong emotions as a ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

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    Why Empires Fall

    Rome, America and the Future of the West

    by John Rapley, Peter Heather ...
    Narrated by Sid Sagar ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 55 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in freefall.This is not the first time the global order has witnessed such a dramatic rise and fall. The Roman Empire followed a similar arc from ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

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    The Art of Racing in the Rain

    by Garth Stein ...
    Narrated by Christopher Evan Welch ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 56 min

    Soon to be a major motion picture, this heart-warming and inspirational tale follows Enzo, a loyal family dog, tells the story of his human family, how they nearly fell apart, and what he did to bring them back together.Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: he thinks and feels in nearly human ways. He has educated himself by watching extensive television, and by listening very closely to the ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

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    Odyssey

    by Stephen Fry ...
    Narrated by Stephen Fry ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths

    Unabridged

    10 hours 36 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.A Sunday Times bestsellerThe next book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally bestselling Greek myths series telling the story of The Odyssey.**Sometimes the hardest journey is the way back home . . .Wily Odysseus, King of Ithaca, has won Troy for the Greeks – after a decade of brutal, bloody warfare. But now this warrior remembers he is a husband and father – and ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Dawn of Everything

    A New History of Humanity

    by David Graeber, David Wengrow ...
    Narrated by Malk Williams ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 2 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    End Times

    Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration

    by Peter Turchin ...
    Narrated by Robin McAlpine ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 4 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.A brilliant new theory of how society works from one of the most iconoclastic thinkers of our time**What leads to political turbulence and social breakdown? How do elites maintain their dominant position? And why do ruling classes sometimes suddenly lose their grip on power?For decades, complexity scientist Peter Turchin has been studying world history like no one else. ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Fire Killer

    The BRAND NEW edge-of-your-seat crime thriller from Ross Greenwood

    by Ross Greenwood ...
    Narrated by David Thorpe ...
    Series Audiobook 5 - The DI Barton Series

    Unabridged

    10 hours 16 min

    **'**A masterclass in crime fiction' Jane E JamesThe BRAND NEW thriller from bestselling author Ross Greenwood!When DI Barton is asked to investigate a seemingly innocuous fire that kills, he believes it's either children fooling around or a worrying racially-motivated crime.As he delves deeper into the case, he soon realises that there is a history of similar blazes spread out over many years, ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Where Do We Go from Here

    Chaos or Community?

    by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ...
    Narrated by JD Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 38 min

    The last book written by King his final reflections after a decade of civil rights strugglesIn 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript. In this significantly prophetic work, which has been unavailable for more than ten years, we find King’s acute analysis of ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD

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    The Widow of Walcha

    A true story of love, lies and murder in a small country town

    by Emma Partridge ...
    Narrated by Jo Van Es ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 20 min

    The Widow of Walcha is a shocking true story about death, love and lies in the small NSW town of Walcha.Shortlisted, 2023 Danger Awards, Nonfiction categoryAll farmer Mathew Dunbar ever wanted was to find love and have a family of his own. That’s why, just months after meeting Natasha Darcy, the much-loved grazier didn’t hesitate to sign over his multi-million-dollar estate to her.When Mathew died ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Mythos

    The Greek Myths Retold

    by Stephen Fry ...
    Narrated by Stephen Fry ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths

    Unabridged

    15 hours 36 min

    Brought to you by Penguin‘The Greek myths are told to you here by the ever-soothing voice of Stephen Fry, who takes you from Zeus to Athena with his typical humour.’ -- The Guardian‘Read by Fry with his accustomed ebullient showmanship [he] gives the legends modern resonance by telling them with a contemporary colloquial twist' -- AUDIOBOOK of the WEEK, The TimesSTEP INTO ANOTHER WORLD - OF MAGIC, ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Becoming

    by Michelle Obama ...
    Narrated by Michelle Obama ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 3 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Winner of the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word AlbumWinner of the 2020 Audie Award for Autobiography/MemoirAn intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir; 17 million copies sold worldwideTHE NO. 1 BESTSELLERBRITISH BOOK AWARDS, NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARTHE SUNDAY TIMES, MEMOIR OF THE YEAR</stro... ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Gods of Guilt

    by Michael Connelly ...
    Narrated by Peter Giles ...
    Series Audiobook 5 - Mickey Haller Series

    Unabridged

    11 hours 45 min

    The 'Lincoln Lawyer' grapples with a haunting case in a gripping thriller from bestselling author Michael Connelly.Mickey Haller gets the text 'Call me ASAP - 187', and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention.Suddenly, Mickey's not just trying to get his client off a murder charge, but there is a more personal connection: the victim was Gloria Dayton - his own former ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Fifth Witness

    The Bestselling Thriller Behind Netflix’s The Lincoln Lawyer Season 2

    by Michael Connelly ...
    Narrated by Peter Giles ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - Mickey Haller Series

    Unabridged

    13 hours 55 min

    In tough times, crime is one of the few things that still pays, but even criminals are having to make cut-backs. So for defence lawyer Mickey Haller, most of his new business is not about keeping people out of jail; it's about keeping a roof over their heads as the foreclosure business is booming.Lisa Trammel has been a client of Mickey's for eight months, and so far he's stopped the bank from ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark

    Book 5 – The BRAND NEW book in the Magnolia Parks Universe series

    by Jessa Hastings ...
    Narrated by Adam Hugill, Ella-Rae Smith ...
    Series Audiobook 5 - Magnolia Parks Universe

    Unabridged

    22 hours 42 min

    Book five in the sensational Magnolia Parks Universe series!How many loves do you actually get in a lifetime? Everyone knows by now that Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine are in the stars, but is that enough?Magnolia and BJ are reeling from a devastating loss as they try to plan what's been dubbed 'the wedding of the century'. As family tensions mount and their respective pasts begin catching up to ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD

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    Hillbilly Elegy: The Internationally Bestselling Memoir from Trump’s Future Vice-President of the United States

    by J. D. Vance ...
    Narrated by J. D. Vance ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 49 min

    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER / OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLDFrom Donald Trump's 2024 Vice-Presidential Candidate‘Essential reading for this moment in history’ New York Times‘Brilliant … offers an acute insight into the reasons voters have put their trust in Trump’ ObserverJ. D. Vance grew up in the hills of Kentucky. His family and friends were the people most of the world cal... ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    How to Talk to Anyone

    92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

    by Leil Lowndes ...
    Narrated by Leil Lowndes, Joyce Bean ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours

    "You'll not only break the ice, you'll melt it away with your new skills." Larry King"The lost art of verbal communication may be revitalized by Leil Lowndes." Harvey McKay, author of “How to Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive”What is that magic quality makes some people instantly loved and respected? Everyone wants to be their friend (or, if single, their lover!) In business, they ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Snow Killer

    The start of an explosive crime series from Ross Greenwood

    by Ross Greenwood ...
    Narrated by David Thorpe ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The DI Barton Series

    Unabridged

    9 hours 34 min

    ‘Fear the north wind. Because no one will hear you scream…’A family is gunned down in the snow but one of the children survives. Three years on, that child takes revenge and the Snow Killer is born. But then, nothing - no further crimes are committed, and the case goes cold.Fifty years later, has the urge to kill been reawakened? As murder follows murder, the detective team tasked with solving the ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD